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  1. Well, for one thing it shows how easy it is to pull the plug on a lot of people at once. A single service like this shouldn't have this kind of power. It illustrates the necessity of having alternate hookups that can *route around the damage*

  2. Re:What would Kissinger do? on WikiLeaks Releases 300K Turkey Government Emails In Response To Erdogan's Post-Coup Purges (rt.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    More likely he did listen to Brzezinski.

    Destabilization does have a purpose.

  3. Re:So what happens if... on WikiLeaks Releases 300K Turkey Government Emails In Response To Erdogan's Post-Coup Purges (rt.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nothing

  4. Be grateful they don't play bagpipes.

  5. Re:Unforseen? on Pokemon Go Doubles Nintendo's Stock Price (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Augmented reality and market capitalization are the same thing. We got another unicorn here..

  6. Re:"Blocked". What does "blocked" mean in this cas on Brazil Judge Orders Phone Carriers To Block WhatsApp Message App (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It's far simpler to simply drop encrypted packets that can't be read. All the "official" channels, like banks and other businesses, have the built in back doors.

  7. Re:"Blocked". What does "blocked" mean in this cas on Brazil Judge Orders Phone Carriers To Block WhatsApp Message App (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    :-) That's almost pedantic.. They are businesses subject to any government whim. We need a way around them all to defeat the blockade.

  8. Re:"Blocked". What does "blocked" mean in this cas on Brazil Judge Orders Phone Carriers To Block WhatsApp Message App (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The devil is always in the details.

    More likely the story is obfuscated by the details, like that old lawyers trick, comply with a discovery order by drowning them in paperwork.

  9. Re:monkey business on Brazil Judge Orders Phone Carriers To Block WhatsApp Message App (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Everyone knows you can run your apps over wifi.

    OMG!

  10. Re:"Blocked". What does "blocked" mean in this cas on Brazil Judge Orders Phone Carriers To Block WhatsApp Message App (reuters.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Prevent WhatsApp traffic from transiting phone carrier networks? Doesn't affect Wi-Fi, then....Maybe the judge has no idea, and neither do the folks who are supposed to implement it.

    Neither do you if you think the wifi networks aren't connected to the internet through the phone carriers.

  11. Re: "The reason for the order was not known" on Brazil Judge Orders Phone Carriers To Block WhatsApp Message App (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I would prefer he just offer a VPN service, or some other way to make blocking much more difficult. In the meantime, I would like to see the engineers develop robust ad hoc networks that don't require service from the phone carriers. The state has too much power over communications.

  12. Re:"The reason for the order was not known" on Brazil Judge Orders Phone Carriers To Block WhatsApp Message App (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Some cars don't have built in tracking or remote disable (like OnStar), so lets ban all cars that can't be tracked

    You should maybe talk to the Germans about that... You gotta start small.

  13. Re:monkey business on Brazil Judge Orders Phone Carriers To Block WhatsApp Message App (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You may call it "ignorance" all you want, but is the blockade working? If so, then what is ""ignorant" about it?

  14. Ah, so then the "announcement" was really an nvidia ad? Do they really need that much front page exposure?

  15. Re:When will VideoCards peak? on NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX 1060 To Take On AMD's Radeon RX 480 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    When we reach photorealism at dual 4k, then we can maybe talk about peaking. We're a long, long way off from that.

    That, and the petabytes of storage and RAM needed to store all that for a 30 second video

  16. Would have been nice to see that specified in the summary.

    By the way, it pretty much goes without mentioning that an nvidia card runs cooler than an AMD :-)

  17. Re:Deja vu! on NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX 1060 To Take On AMD's Radeon RX 480 (hothardware.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sorry for the second reply:

    But all of you might want to save yourselves the effort of posting here, since all comments will disappear if they delete the story.

    Slashdot, please, if you must, instead of deleting it, just move it off the front page.

  18. Deja vu! on NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX 1060 To Take On AMD's Radeon RX 480 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    All over again.

    What is this? An Alzheimers test?

  19. Re:License to work on Farmers Demand Right To Fix Their Own Dang Tractors (modernfarmer.com) · · Score: 1

    The assets can be seized and put into the public domain. It would probably take a full on riot to make that happen though.

  20. Not a bad idea on BuzzFeed and Washington Post To Use Robots For RNC Coverage (engadget.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Good way to be there and not risk getting shot

  21. Why can't they just pit Watson against Eliza? on DARPA Will Stage an AI Fight in Las Vegas For DEF CON (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    At least you might end up with a good movie script.

  22. Re:Companies shouldn't have political power on New Study Shows Why Big Pharma Hates Medical Marijuana (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    In fact, a simple objective review of actions by each party shows the Democrats are exceedingly fascist.

    Well, I wouldn't go so far as to single them out. I don't care for the republicans religious fascism either. I just think that democrat voters are hopelessly naive about the party's history and present day tokenism and faux "liberalism", while the republicans are just brutally "frank". There was that bit of role reversal in '64 that is climaxing now with Trump, a person that has me wondering why people don't go for Johnson instead. At this point the Rs and Ds work together more as a tag team than as actual opponents.

    Regardless, back on topic, it's long past time for them to turn their backs on pharma/religious lobbyists and abolish prohibition. Unlike the old days with alcohol, this one is truly unconstitutional.

  23. Re:Cut the universal work week on The Case Against a Universal Basic Income (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually I am aware of that. It's how derivatives work at 10 times the entire world's GDP. It's all IOUs. It is quite impossible to call in all those chips (scrips?). The only way to get anything out of this market is a transaction tax.

  24. Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots on DARPA Will Stage an AI Fight in Las Vegas For DEF CON (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    the CGC could mean a future where you don't have to worry about viruses or hackers attacking your computer, smartphone or your other connected devices. At a national level, this technology could help prevent large-scale attacks against things like power plants, water supplies and air-traffic infrastructure.

    Um, this assumes that one side can always maintain an advantage, amiright? Otherwise it just sounds like a really fast game of cat and mouse.

  25. Re:Let's send out Independent Election Observers. on U.S. Curtails Federal Election Observers (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what that adds here since I don't single anybody out in simply saying that fraud will be more difficult to spot when nobody is watching over the process.